Annlin congregation drive from Pretoria and visited the first prayer house Niquide, where they plan to build a church building.
The congregation already has a relationship with the prayer house, and visit them to strengthen relationships and encourage them. They started the church building and found that the people there has very little background of construction and therefore it is not about the building of the church, but the development of people and their leaders. God gave us patience to not just do a job to finish it, but to focus on the process of development of people. Small successes become very important and we see Him working.
The minister's son comes along and his presence and personality helps a lot to reach children.
Annlin build relationships with evangelists and youth workers in Mocuba and here Elisa is proudly showing of her training certificate in children's work.
The team is part of people's lives, but they also have to make sacrifices!
I joint the team and my luggage were added on top!
Food is shared and we experience eating with our hands.
We visited the prayer houses with the pastor. Normally it take three days on foot to reach here.
The team helps with training especially with basic evangelism and where they request training on topics like families.
The real value of these visits is because it is remote places and the visit encourage the members. They see in the words of an old man "God still remembers us". Also the pastor get new energy to try again. He works under a lot of pressure, it is not easy to promote a Biblical kingdom in a very traditional kingdom. He afterwards testifies that the visit gave him new initiative to make new plans.
The team visit houses, pray for the sick and learn a lot about life in Mozambique.
The Theological student accompanied the team as a translator, but also as an gifted teacher. He teached the team about culture in an very honest way and lived Gods love.
The pastor told us facinating stories about the history of the work and about complicated relationships. He is confronted with immense challenges and we pleaded with Him with God for the people of Gile. Pray with us for Estévao Philima his wife and five children.
For a long time we will be grateful to have taps to open, you can then even drink the water!
To God the honor for a meaningful time with the people of Mozambique.
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